The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-12-07
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had told me that il was recently quite
fashionable with surgeons to remove the
larynx Of patients troubled with throat
diseases. The prominent surgeon is an in
dignant one now, and violently protests
that made him talk nonsense. THE re-
moval OF the tonsils," he writes, was,
and still lie, a too common operation by
surgeons who seek to know more than any
Of Us do about the mysterious agencies of
the tonsils. Nobody knows why they exist,
but that nature places them in the throat
for some wise purpose nobody d oubts; but
Just what that use is has never been de-
termined. The fashion, as you call IT,
was dictated by the thirst for more knowl-
edge on the subject; and the same spirit
sciUates the profession in pursuing the
other craze which mentioned"
A friend was telling me of his own and
his wife's experience in having moles and
wens removed by electricity. His wife
had on her right shoulder blemish in the
shape OF large mole, quite half an inch in
diameter, which practically made it i'm
possible for her to wear ball or evening
dresses, which would reveal her other wise
shspely shoulders. She accidentally heard
of the electric operations. and obtaining the
address OF the surgeon who performed
them, she went without her husbands
knowledge to ais office and submitted 10
tDe operation. 1t required about a week to
heal the wounds made by the needles, with
which the mole was perforated in every
direction then the mole, which had bsen
Burned to e dry, black crisp, fell off, leay-
ing the shoulder perfectly white; and Eigh
only the slightest indentation to sh1T
where the discolorstion had been. New
skin formed over il, and there is hardly a
noticeable blemish there now. Success IN
tpifed her to insist on her husband under
going the same operation on q more deli
cate part OF his pe-son-namely, his nose.
he thus tells Of his own experience:
II had on my nose at birth, so was
told, a wen, which grew with my years IN
I'll l became a man, and for many years it
greatly dis6gurtd my countenance. IL vas
about the size OF pea, and was on my left
nostril. Ii changed color from time TO
time, and would grow to frigbtiully san
culinary red whenever | INDUCED myself
with wines or liquors of any sort. came
10 regard ii at times as q "gin blossom"
and an rreverent reporter in describing
me once suggested that this object had ev-
identity been one of long and patient and
costly culture. Invent, on my wife's urg-
emit entreaty. to her surgeon, and asked
him If ii could be removed. lie looked at
Il, and suggested that it might be ii /
would not look upon the wine when it
was red; but I told him I was born go.
lie examined further, and at 0ncs pro-
ceeded to operate upon it. He bathed my
nose, first OF all, in cocaine. 1t grew
cold at first, and then became perfectly
numb, as though asleep from lack of cir
culation of the blood. 1t felt as if para
lyZed. he then applied an electric needle
to the wen, sticking it through aud
through as near the roots as possible.
There was no pain, though half
an hour was consumed in the
operation whenever he increased the cur
rent of electricity saw billions of stars, and
enarka eoemed N fash frou1 NV ovaa and
the eye.balls seemed to crack with each
spark that apparently few from them.
When the operation was completed the
wen was black, no longer red. and was more
unsightly than ever. He put fesh-col-
ored court-plssier over it, and keptit there
for about a week. Then IN washing it of
the mass Of blackened flesh fell away. A
new skin formed, AID now you can barely
see small scar where the unsightly object
once was"
Does your surgeon make speciality of
this work?'' l asked:
mo, and wonder he does not. There
are thousands OF women and men in this
city who would pay Utmost any price to
have blemishes of this sort removed.
have stopped several strangers on the
street and told them of my experience,
and gave them the doctors address. Only
one ever recognized me after, and he was
without his wen, and was most profuse IN
his thanks. IL he did not have higher
aims and purposes, and would make a
speciality of this business. my doctor would
be rich in no time; but he would have TO
advertise. and that isn't professional, you
know. He prefers, however, to straighten
crooked limbs and invent surgical instru-
ments."
rhe reversal OF the conviction of Sharp
has resulted in some curious circumstances
which have found no mention in print.
saw Roscoe Conkling and Burke Cochran
shaking hands and congrstulsting each
other over the decision; yet Conkling is
the lawyer who brought out in the original
legislative inquiry the testimony of Sharp
which the Court of Appeals, or the argu.
ment of Cochran for Sharp, now saws was
improperly admitted. | understand that
both agree that the reversal of the verdict
on this ground alone was a triumph of law
not OF justice, however. The conviction
OF Sharp made great reputation for De-
hancey Nicoll; the reversal of the judy
ment makes Burke Cochran loom up, locally
at least, as q constitutional lawyer, as
well as forcible and eloquent orator. 1t
was only few years ago that Cochran
came to this city with hay-seed in his hair
and his wardrobe on his back. He
has since married a very rich woman,
earned several fat fees, won fame as an
orator, and been elected to Congress by a
very large plurality. How far the failure
of the seven Court of Appeals Judges 10
sgree with Mr.. Nicoll, is to affect his rep
utation as q lawyer, remains to be seen. I
think he feels this defeat worse than bis
recent defeat at the polls The newspaper
generally regard the reverse as a blow al
the World, and think that the escape OF
Sharp another reason for haunting its ed.
ttor. Any sympathy for Sharp? I should
say there was. You could hear il every.
where, and came very near getting my
head metsphoricslly pounded for saying
that he ought TO have been convicted
because OF his habit nf cursing the fellows
he has had TO bribe and telling ont oil
school just what ne had paid head for
them.
The Herald's advance in price from two
to three cents Is one OF the evidences that
the new editor In charge Of il, John Rus
sell Young, brings to 1t not only brilliancy
90 writer, but common sense as q bust
ness mansger. The advance will add
about $50, 900 year to BENEFITS income
for As many Herslds viii be sold at three
cents ss at two. Its great loss of circula
ton did not cost IL any really valuable ad.
vertising, and its high rates have been
maintained throughout its recent depres
sion In circulation.
The neu penny paper projected By Frank